Harihara Sreenivasa Rao

Water and its quality in ancient encyclopedias of Karnataka - Paper presented at the National Seminar on Water and Culture (2007)

This paper highlights how ancient texts of Karnataka have dealt with various issues of water which range from cloud formation to finding ground water.

Posted on 30 Jan, 2011 06:40 PM

The author looks at three ancient Kannada and Sanskrit texts - Lokoparam, Manasollasa, Shivatattvaratnakara. All these texts were written between the 12th and 18th century. These texts record hydrological data ranging from cloud formation to traditional methods of preserving potable water.

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